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M. BENDIGK.

STENGIL.

Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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thermen STATES Armar @rtree o MAX BENDHAVK, OF NIV YORK, Y.

STENCIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters .Patent No. 325,041, dated August 25, 1835.

Application tiled June. 1S, 183?4 (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX BENDICK, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a residentof the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulrImprovement in Stencils for Embroidery; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being `had to the accompanying drawings, and to 'ing the outlines of the design, the matter of the selection of colors with which to fill ont the design being left to their own skill or j udgment without other guide for their direction. The result has been that the work is oftentimes unnatural, inartistic, and unsatisfactory, because ofthe selection of false colors.

rlhe object of this invention is to afford a remedy for this ditliculty,and to enable all workers, however unskilled in their knowledge of colors, to embroider an outlined design correctly and in conformity tothe original design, and to reproduce the original dcsign in every particular as to color, tone, or shading by furnishing an exact key for the selection of the proper shade of color for each and every feature of the pattern.

lt consists in embodying in the perforated stencil, and. within each separate feature or element of the design, an arbitrary symbol or character which shall denote, in accordance with an accompanying key or chart, the color, shade, and gradation of color in which that feature or element is to be worked, so that the symbol shall be invariably stamped with the design and inseparably therefrom upon the fabric to be worked.

.ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l illustrates a sheetof parchment paper upon which a design for the embroidery is drawn in lines of minute perforations, serving to convert the sheet into a stencil, from which, in the customary manner and with the usual ap.

pliances for the work, a number of duplicates may be produced upon the fabric to be embroidered. These stencilsheets are largely used for the reproduction of the outlines of the designs, but no satisfactory method has been made public for facilitating the working of the outlined pattern in appropriate colors. To accomplish this end I embody within the outlines of the design, and by means of the saine system f minute perforations by which the design itse fis drawn andthe stencil made, symbols or characters-such, for example, as are illustrated in the drawings and designated by the letters A B C D E F G.

Each symbol or character indicates arbitrarily a particular color, or shade of color, or manner of shading, the key to the symbol being in an index-table printed on a separate slip or in a book, and in which the coloror shade or meaning appropriate to the symbol or character is printed opposite thereto. rlhe parties who are to embroider the design stamped or marked upon the material by the stencil are thus enabled at a glance to select the proper color without reference on their part to books of colors or to colored designs, and without any previous special education in the art of coloring.

Fig. 2 illustrates the printed slip accompanying the stencil, Fig. l, A representing the symbol indicating yellow-green; B, that indicating wood color; C, brown; D, pink; l, yellow; F, olive, and G is a mark which indicates that from the point of the angle the color is to be shaded darker in the direction ofthe diver-ging lines.

It is evident that the system of symbols to indicate colors may be extended to meet all' requirements in this connect-iemand that, apart from the advantages of a uniform system of arbitrary symbols which l prefer to use as applicable to all the stencils alike..` special symbols may be devised for each set of stencils.

The advantage of nl v system of inelmling the symbols designating the color inthe body of the design within its outlines is found notl only in that the design stamped upon the fab` ric to bc embroidered always and invariably carries its own directions as to the appropriate coloring and shading of the iinished work to be produced therefrom, but that these sym- IOO broidery, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specieation in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

M. BENDICK.

Witnesses:

J. F. AoKER, Jr., A. B. MOORE. 

